Presenting the Hullo Family

We would like to introduce you to the Hullo Family and friends...

This family is very special to us at HulloMail as they have been created by us to help us communicate the great benefits of our service and highlight the new Hullo feature, which allows you to send short, voice messages to your friends for FREE. You can find out some more details about each character, find links to their Facebook page so you can become a fan, watch their videos and view their pictures.
Hugo Hullo
Hugo lives in NY city with his wife Hillary and his son Harry. He works as an accountant in a small company in Astoria. Originally from London, Hugo moved to the US in the 80s to be with Hilary. Hugo loves gadgets, and is always checking out technology blogs online for something new to add to his collection, He wouldn’t be without his BlackBerry Bold.
Hilary Hullo
Originally from Wisconsin, Hillary works as a maths teacher at a college in Brooklyn. She is married to Hugo and they have one son Harry. Hillary is crazy about fashion, and loves to shop in Manhattan, making Hugo crazy with all the shoes she buys. Hilary has an iPhone which Hugo bought for her last year.
Hilda Hullo
Hilda is Hugo’s mother. She lives in a nice residential area in the north of London with her cat Hef. She loves watching EastEnders, and never misses an episode. Hugo brought her a laptop for Christmas and she is never off the internet.
Harry Hullo 
Harry is 16 years old and is a rather rebellious teenager, and just wants to party all the time. His favourite band is The Hulligans, and he doesn’t miss a concert. He also loves hanging out with his friends, Hitch and Herbert playing videogames. Harry’s mobile is a Hero, he likes the cool features.
Hero Hullo
Hero is a rather crazy dog, who is always looking forward to his next walk. He constantly plays with his pink ball and loves to bark at Holly, the parrot.
Hef Hullo
You can't get a more chilled out customer than Hef. His main highlight of the day is being fed and he loves to take a lovely long nap on the couch until he continues his sleeping on Grandma’s bed. Hef is a cat of peace (secretly he’s a fan of U2's Bono).
Holly Hullo
Holly the parrot is never silent and is always getting Harry into trouble by mimicking Hilary, Hugo and even Hero. She just won't stop talking and trying to be part of conversations.
Herbert and Hitch
Harry's best friends, they are completely obsessed with video games, and usually like to spend Saturday nights playing Call of Duty round at Harry's.
Heather 
Heather is Hugo's PA. She is really lazy and takes every opportunity to slack off at work and read cheesy romantic novels. She is desperately looking for her ‘prince charming’.
The Hulligans
They are the coolest band in NY and have finally made it in Europe and Japan. Their latest song, Send a Hullo to my Heart, is a worldwide number one hit. They love to get closer to their fans and have a million+ fans on Facebook.
Become a fan on facebook
Watch episode one:  the Parrot
Watch episode two: the Hulligans
Check out the family album

HulloMail joins BlackBerry Alliance Program and releases latest version of BlackBerry App V1.1.2

London, UK – HulloMail™ (www.hullomail.com), voice communications innovator, today announced it has become a member of the BlackBerry ISV (Independent Software Vendor) Alliance Program.  Participation in the alliance program deepens the product development and marketing relationship between HulloMail, which develops and markets a free, advanced voice messaging application optimized for BlackBerryâ smartphone users, and BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM).

“Membership in the BlackBerry Alliance Program demonstrates HulloMail’s continued commitment to growing the technical feature set specifically for BlackBerry smartphone users,” said Andy Munarriz, founder and CEO of HulloMail.  “HulloMail’s recently enhanced app delivers everything that a smartphone user wants from a visual voicemail service, plus the added bonus of our powerful new two-way digital audio messaging capability, Hullos. We are receiving great feedback from our UK and US users and we’re excited to be working closely with RIM through the alliance program to make our advanced voice messaging service key to BlackBerry smartphone users.”

 

As a BlackBerry Alliance Select member, HulloMail can gain access to additional marketing, sales and technical resources on the BlackBerry platform. 

For further information, visit www.hullomail.com or to download the latest release of HulloMail via BlackBerry App World™ go to: http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/search/hullomail.

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About HulloMail’s App for BlackBerry Smartphones:

HulloMail offers BlackBerry smartphone users a free visual voicemail application.  Features include a centralised view and management of messages with push notifications, automatic downloading and Bluetooth® support, plus unique message syncing capabilities with email compliant accounts such as Gmail, MobileMe and Microsoft® Exchange that provides an enhanced level of integration, especially with Google contacts. 

The free app also incorporates the new Hullo technology, enabling subscribers to send short digital voice messages to friends, family and colleagues without having to make a call.  HulloMail believes that Hullos will dramatically change the future of voice communication as they allow users to converse back and forth with other smartphone users, domestically or overseas, if desired, for free.* 

* Your mobile operator may charge for sending a Hullo if you exceed your monthly data allowance or you are roaming.

About HulloMail™

HulloMail™ develops and delivers smart voice messaging services for the consumer and enterprise markets.  The technology is the fastest, easiest and most flexible way for mobile users to manage their voicemail from virtually any mobile device – and the only cross platform, carrier agnostic offering to deliver the power of free two-way digital audio voice messaging, Hullos.  For more information, visit http://www.hullomail.com.          

Follow HulloMail on the Web:

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/HulloMail

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/HulloMail

Twitter: http://twitter.com/hullomail

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hullomail/

Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/HulloMail

Blog: http://hullomail.blogspot.com/

Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/companies/hullomail

The BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties and trademarks of Research In Motion Limited.

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Comments from around the Web

We are really pleased, as people seem to be getting as excited about our service as we are, with this is mind we thought we would put together some of the great comments and reviews we have had about the service over recent months, enjoy!

"I just got done setting up Hullomail and surprisingly I like this app A LOT. Very easy to set up, very good graphics and shows a picture next to whoever left you a voice mail or a missed call and very fast at receiving voice mails unlike VVM from Verizon which sometimes took an Hour to come through!" - mjbesen310, CrackBerry Forums

"Hullomail is really good...even sends you an email with a link to listen to your voicemail as an mp3. Definitely recommend to anyone [...]"- luckster28, Vodafone Forums


"The service is called Hullomail and it has been invaluable.  It is a free of charge mobile service which enables recordings of voice mails to be emailed to my gmail or mobileme account. One of the best features is the ability to send a Hullo (voice mail) directly back to a person without having to phone them (Great just to reply to a question that needs more explaining than a txt). If you [...] want visual voice mail download the app and register for the service." - Kristian Toms


Some app store reviews:


"Just wanted to say thanks for making a brilliant app - I wasn't getting any voicemail alerts through Vodafone and unbeknown to me I had 4 voicemail - one of them very important. HulloMail! works just great and I left a post on the Vodafone eForum to advise people how good it is." - Chris, HulloMail user


"I just used your website steps to install hullomail onto my iphone 3gs. Simple, accurate, quick, easy - free. Well structured and thought out, pretty and it works superbly, quickly, no fuss. Great app and service thank you" - Neil, HulloMail user


"I have a BBTour and was disappointed it did not have visual voicemail.....Until I found this app. Its fabulous! It was a piece of cake to install and set up - I love it. A definite must have." - BlackBerry user


"Miffed you don't have visual voicemail on your iPhone? Get this. The email sync feature is great too - you receive an email with the voicemail message attached as a quicktime MP3 and, when you have read it, the corresponding message in the voicemail app is marked as read too. Don't know what it's like when roaming although they seem to have made provision for this." jtorange, iPhone user


"Allows me to manage my voicemails with ease, brillant!" yppirtos, iPhone user


"Brilliant! I went from PhoneFusion to this as this one has push voicemail and displays them in my notification bar. This certainly rivals the iPhone." Glenn, Android user


why not see if you agree with these reviews and try the service for yourself?


Download HulloMail for BlackBerry


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also available for the Android

BlackBerry Anthem

The only thing I love as much as mobile phones is “UK Funky” and the amazing dance routines that go with the songs. I really happy to see my worlds collide with the BlackBerry Anthem.